A Hanseatic merchant
Olaf Scholz goes through the dream career of a social democrat of the upper class of officials. If he is also elected party leader, he has achieved one of his dream goals.
Coming from petty-bourgeois circumstances, he has tenaciously spread the slogan of promotion through education. In the student and university milieu, whose representatives in Hamburg dominate the SPD, he has worked hard without having to come into contact with the harsh living conditions of the proletarians. And in responsible positions, especially as Minister of Finance, he has represented bourgeois positions. The ideology of the state, which must save, he has zealously spread. For whom should actually save the state, he did not want to explain.
The proletarian, however, relies on collective care. He does not have material means to save. He wants to be able to send his children to swimming pools and renovated schools and kindergartens. And that in his old age he can only travel to the Lüneburg Heath, but no longer to foreign countries, the proletarian, who has provided his workforce throughout his life, does not see that either. Old-age poverty is no problem for officials who come from the university environment. And that the rural population with ever fewer German-speaking physicians must get along is not an issue for the upper class of officials. When overhearing problems, the dominant cliques in the individual parties do not differ.
When it came to the affairs of the stock-dealing financial oligarchy, over a period of more than twelve years, many billions (now over fifty billion) were available to make them available from state resources. Scholz and Schäuble did not differ.
The Austerity course of the government, which manifests itself in the decay of public interest, Scholz continued like Schäuble.
Why does the SPD's leading functionary deny its voters? Schröder wanted to leave his origins behind and no longer took the word "worker" in his mouth. He spoke only of the people (perhaps after the model of a certain German emperor, who suddenly knew no more parties).
This layer of officials is ashamed of their background and their voters from the proletarian milieu. They owe their social advancement, their power and their reputation to them. But they want to go higher. They want recognition from the bourgeoisie. They want to be recognized as members of the bourgeois class. Only then are the careerists and newcomers satisfied.
Schroeder was such a reckless careerist and Scholz would be a suitable successor, if not with such a big mouth.
If anyone else votes SPD, then certainly not because of the Berlin officials layer; The only thing that comes to mind about the climate crisis is a ban on plastic bags, and it is clear to anyone who thinks that this was missed twenty years ago and that it is now just a gimmick for the media. Short-winded actionism does not eliminate the disturbed relationship of the SPD to environmental protection.
In the working class, the SPD is no longer anchored (for the senior officials there is no longer this class) and the middle class does not need this party anymore. Even a minister of finance who presents himself as a serious, Hanseatic merchant does not benefit.